Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: V4.0 pool problem Message-ID: <5622@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 21:49:35 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5622 Posted: Tue Mar 19 21:49:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Mar-85 06:01:42 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 From: Richard Garland I have a 730 with *only* 1 Meg. of memory (I know: "Buy more memory"). It has several times got into a very bad state: it will suddenly allocate a huge number of SRP's (small request packets: can be shown with SHOW MEMORY command). The SYSGEN default for my machine is 400 SRP's and it will stay that way with about 300 used and 100 free for a week or two then suddenly it will skyrocket. Today there were 1600 SRP's with over 1500 in use. I didn't know it could allocate these on the fly but it does. The system at that point slowed to a crawl (from a slow walk). I rebooted and we are back to "normal". What is happening? Is there too much or too little pool allocated? Is it due to my small memory size? Is it a bug or a feature? Rg -------